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green dragon

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green dragon
n.
A tuberous plant (Arisaema dracontium) of eastern North America, having divided leaves and minute flowers at the base of a long slender spadix projecting from a narrow green spathe. Also called dragonroot.
green dragon
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a North American aroid plant, Arisaema dracontium, with a long slender spadix projecting from a green or white long narrow spathe Also called dragonroot
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Noun1.green dragon - European arum resembling the cuckoopint
Dracunculus vulgaris, dragon arum
aroid, arum - any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
Dracunculus, genus Dracunculus - tuberous herbaceous perennials: dragon arum
2.green dragongreen dragon - early spring-flowering plant of eastern North America resembling the related jack-in-the-pulpit but having digitate leaves, slender greenish yellow spathe and elongated spadix
Arisaema dracontium
aroid, arum - any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
Arisaema, genus Arisaema - tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials


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And we are of an excellent family and have a pedigree that I challenge any humans to equal, as it extends back about twenty thousand years, to the time of the famous Green Dragon of Atlantis, who lived in a time when humans had not yet been created.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
There was a billiard-room at the Green Dragon, which some anxious mothers and wives regarded as the chief temptation in Middlemarch.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
As soon as possible Rose retired to a corner, with a porcelain god on one side, a green dragon on the other, and, what was still more embarrassing, Fun See sat on a tea-chest in front, and stared at her with his beady black eyes till she did not know where to look.
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